CLE @ NYY
Home plate: James Jean
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how James Jean called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.39▲4 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
Steven Kwan vs Carlos Rodón - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
David Fry vs Carlos Rodón - 3+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ben Rice vs Matt Festa
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carlos Rodón — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Steven Kwan — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.